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Aug 4, 2020
Will COVID-19 mark the end of scientific publishing as we know it?
Randy Schekman is getting a bit tired of talking about this.
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Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2019
Society's tendency to denigrate kids these days is a 'memory tic,' says cognitive scientist
They're leaders in important social, environmental and political movements, finding ways to tackle the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change to gun violence. One even stood up to the Taliban at 15 years old ...
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2019
Sexual abuse against gay and bi men brings unique stigma and harm
As trauma psychologists, we're leading a team to help alleviate psychiatric distress in gay, bi and trans males who have been sexually abused or assaulted. In collaboration with two nonprofit organizations, MaleSurvivor and ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2019
Keeping monkeys as pets is extraordinarily cruel–a ban is long overdue
Most people will have seen at least one headline over the last couple of years describing animal attacks on humans. This needn't include the elephant from a Zimbabwe National Park that trampled a tourist or the Sumatran tiger ...
Social Sciences
May 1, 2019
Analysis of old people's civic participation
Older people's civic participation has been associated with improvement of cognitive function and physical and mental health, among other aspects. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by Rodrigo Serrat, postdoctoral ...
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2019
When science is put in the service of evil
The Holocaust is one of the worst collective crimes in the history of humanity – and medical science was complicit in the horrors.
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2019
Better planning would help residents warm up to winter cities, researcher finds
Planning, design and governance of a city play at least as important a role as attitudes in helping convince residents to embrace long, cold winters, says a University of Alberta researcher.
Environment
Oct 30, 2018
Food scraps to become dairy and meat substitutes
Finicky eating habits and wasteful processes have led to a system that discards millions of tonnes of food each year, but new approaches are salvaging the scraps we never see to make products that people will want to eat.
Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2018
Dangerous stereotypes stalk black college athletes
If you go strictly by the official account, heatstroke was the cause of death for University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair. McNair died earlier this year following a grueling practice in which training staff failed ...
Archaeology
May 23, 2018
Estimated 7,000 bodies may be buried at former asylum
Some of the boxes stacked inside anthropologist Molly Zuckerman's laboratory contain full bones—a skull, a jaw, or a leg. Others contain only plastic bags of bone fragments that Zuckerman describes as "grit."
